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Welcome to CPR's resource collection where you'll find tools and resources, such as videos, websites and reports, that cover a range of topics relevant to our campaign to end discriminatory and abusive policing.

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The first step in protecting your rights is knowing them! CPR has developed a brief booklet to help New Yorkers of all backgrounds understand their rights when interacting with the police. Print copies are available through CPR member groups, or you can download it here.

#ThisStopsToday is a collaboration of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), Million Hoodies and Freedom Side.

#ThisStopsToday convened to respond to the Staten Island grand jury’s expected failure to indict officers in the killing of Eric Garner, and to call for the end of discriminatory “broken windows” policing, characterized by aggressive enforcement of minor quality of life offenses, that led to the killing of Eric and brutality against too many other New Yorkers.

The NYPD Inspector General’s responsibilities include investigations, reviews and audits of systemic NYPD issues, resulting in recommendations to improve the NYPD’s policies, programs, practices, and operations – with the goal of enhancing the department’s effectiveness, improving public safety and protecting the rights of all New Yorkers.

This report outlines CPR’s recommendations for nine areas that the NYPD Inspector General should consider for investigation, review, study and audit, in order to issue findings and recommendations that will improve public safety and protect the rights of all New Yorkers. The first six represent areas that should be considered priorities in the first year of the Inspector General’s tenure.

In 2013, Communities United For Police Reform created a video series to highlight the negative impact of the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy. Produced by Firelight Films, the short documentaries tell the stories of ordinary New Yorkers – and how they and their neighborhoods have been impacted by the policy.

Communities United for Police Reform, in collaboration with the Center on Race, Crime, and Justice and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, created a website to serve as a clearinghouse of independent research on stop-and-frisk and related policing practices. The website features a library of research papers, divided into the themes of the impact of, legality of, effectiveness of, and alternatives to - stop and frisk and related policing practices.

This report outlines the steps that the de Blasio administration (the administration) should take in its first 100 days in order to make good on its pledges to prioritize safety and civil rights, and repair the relationship between communities and the NYPD. These concrete steps will help continue progress towards a New York City and NYPD that promote both safety and respect for the rights and dignity of all New Yorkers by ensuring policing that is non-discriminatory, effective and constitutionally sound.